Orion Prophecies

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The Orion Prophecies are the histories of our future. They recount events which will transpire in Orion's Arm after humanity creates new forms of life, unlocks the secrets of immortality and expands into the stars. This website is an online encyclopedia of the people, places and events found within the Orion Prophecies.

Orion's Arm

Orion's Arm is the corner of the galaxy that we humans call home. After superluminal transit is invented, planets outside the solar system are settled and over a trillion human beings come to inhabit Orion's Arm. Millenia from now, most people are ruled by a class of human immortals who are stunningly beautiful, immune to illness and live in orbital cities over their planetary possessions. Vast empires have emerged as these immortals claimed the various different constellations of stars and regions throughout Orion's Arm for themselves and fought wars with each other to defend their claims. But a few systems remain independent of imperial obligations and their people committed to a republican government with rights for the well-born and commoner alike.

Though starships ferry people and goods from planet to planet, no telecommunications systems exist in Orion's Arm due to a devastating event in the distant past commonly referred to as The Plague. Only a network of couriers and postal services keep people informed across these vast expanses, overseen by a body responsible for monitoring the use of ancient technologies. Although stifled for multiple millennia by this body, science, engineering and commerce have once again begun to take a prominent role in society with networks of families, financial houses and trade guilds spread throughout Orion's Arm and many societies, universities and parlors sponsoring the pursuit of knowledge and invention.

In Orion's Arm, countless cultures, kinship groups and novel religions find a home over the great distances. But throughout Orion's Arm, an imprimatur remains from the activities of the states, corporations and nationalities in the distant past which originally terraformed the planets, built the orbital structures and designed the interstellar ships. Worlds are at the same time both wild and ordered, the orbital habitats are both organic and structured, all cultures seem both natural and invented. In these spaces and at these times, opportunities abound for the cavalier and adventurous, willing to explore the ruins of an older age or exploit the political instabilities of the current one.

Empires of Orion

The Scion Prophecy is the first of the major prophecies during the age of the Empires of Orion.

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